How to be a Maths Genius: Your Brilliant Brain and How to Train It

Description

Get better at maths and numbers by realizing which math skills you already use in daily life, and learn new ones while having fun. Did you realize how much maths you are already using when playing computer games, planning a journey, or baking a cake? This ebook shows how to expand the knowledge you've already got, how your brain works things out, and how you can get even better at all sorts of maths. Explore amazing algebra, puzzling primes, super sequences, and special shapes. Challenge yourself with quizzes to answer, puzzles to solve, codes to crack, and geometrical illusions to inspire you, and meet the big names and even bigger brains who made mathematical history, such as Pythagoras, Grace Hopper, and Alan Turing. Whether you're a maths mastermind, numbers nerd, or completely clueless with calculations, train your brain to come out on top. This essential ebook explains the basic ideas behind maths, to give young readers greater confidence in their own ability to handle numbers and mathematical problems, and puts the ideas in context to help children understand why maths really is useful and even exciting! Fun, cartoon-style illustrations help introduce the concepts and demystify the maths. CONTENTS A world of maths MATHS BRAIN Meet your brain Maths skills Learning maths Brain vs. machine Problems with numbers Early mathematicians Seeing the solution INVENTING NUMBERS Learning to count Number systems Big zero Pythagoras Thinking outside the box Number patterns Calculation tips Archimedes Maths and measures How big? How far? The size of the problem MAGIC NUMBERS Seeing sequences Pascal’s triangle Magic squares Missing numbers Karl Gauss Infinity Numbers with meaning Number tricks Puzzling primes SHAPES AND SPACE Triangles Shaping up Shape shifting Round and round The third dimension 3-D shape puzzles 3-D fun Leonhard Euler Amazing mazes Optical illusions Impossible shapes A WORLD OF MATHS Interesting times Mapping Grace Hopper Probability Displaying data Logic puzzles and paradoxes Breaking codes Codes and ciphers Alan Turing Algebra Brainteasers Secrets of the Universe Katherine Johnson Glossary Answers Index Acknowledgments